W.H. Auden
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W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.
From the Review
January 30, 1986: A Short Defense of Poetry
December 12, 1974: Two Poems (poem)
December 12, 1974: Death at Random
Twentieth Century Book of the Dead by Gil Elliot
November 1, 1973: An Odd Ball in an Odd Country at an Odd Time
St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan, with a translation of the poetry by Lynda Nicholson
November 1, 1973: No, Plato, No (poem)
October 18, 1973: Posthumous Letter to Gilbert White (poem)
June 28, 1973: Progress Is the Mother of Problems (G. K. Chesterton)
The Ancient Concept of Progress by E.R. Dodds
April 5, 1973: The Poems of Joseph Brodsky
February 22, 1973: Veni, Vici, VD
The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor's Logbook by Basile Yanovsky MD
December 14, 1972: Happy Birthday, Dorothy Day
A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement by William D. Miller
November 30, 1972: Ode to the Diencephalon (poem)
October 19, 1972: An Odd Couple
Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby 1828-1910 by Derek Hudson
August 31, 1972: A Saint-Simon of Our Time
In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler translated by Charles Kessler, with an Introduction by Otto Friedrich
April 20, 1972: Doing Oneself In
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by A. Alvarez
March 9, 1972: A Genius and a Gentleman
Letters of Giuseppe Verdi selected, translated, and edited by Charles Osborne
January 27, 1972: The Diary of a Diary
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
November 4, 1971: Too Much Mustard
The Complete Immortalia edited by Harold H. Hart
The Gambit Book of Popular Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson
September 2, 1971: Talking to Mice (poem)
July 1, 1971: Saying No (letter)
June 3, 1971: The Megrims
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
May 6, 1971: Bonjour Chazal
March 11, 1971: He Descended into Hell in Vain
A Spy for God: The Ordeal of Kurt Gerstein by Pierre Joffroy
February 11, 1971: Lines to Dr. Walter Birk on His Retiring from General Practice (poem)
January 28, 1971: The Anomalous Creature
The Fall into Time by E.M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, with an Introduction by Charles Newman
January 7, 1971: School of the Arts (letter)
November 5, 1970: Portrait with a Wart or Two
Belloc: A Biographical Anthology edited by Herbert van Thal
September 3, 1970: Lame Shadows
Tonio Kröger and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke
July 23, 1970: Old People's Home (poem)
December 18, 1969: The Ballad of Barnaby (poem)
November 20, 1969: Poems by Gunnar EkelöF (poem)
June 5, 1969: Epistle to a Godson (poem)
March 27, 1969: Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots
My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley
March 27, 1969: Protest (letter)
February 27, 1969: The Lay of Grimnir (poem)
September 26, 1968: Forty Years On (poem)
July 11, 1968: Ode to Terminus (poem)
November 9, 1967: A Mosaic for Marianne Moore (poem)
October 26, 1967: A Don in the World
Memories by C.M. Bowra
September 28, 1967: :The Lay of Hrym" and ""Brunhild's Hel-Ride" (poem)
June 1, 1967: A Civilized Man
Theodore Spencer: Selected Essays edited by Alan C. Purves
May 18, 1967: Prologue at Sixty (poem)
February 9, 1967: Mr. G
Goethe: Conversations and Encounters Edited and translated by David Luke and Robert Pick
January 26, 1967: The Lay of VÖLund (poem)
September 22, 1966: River Profile (poem)
August 18, 1966: Byron: The Making of a Comic Poet
May 12, 1966: Filler (poem)
April 14, 1966: The Poetry of Andrei Voznesensky
April 14, 1966: Five Poems by Andrei Voznesensky (poem)
February 17, 1966: Heresies
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety by E.R. Dodds
February 3, 1966: Marginalia (poem)
February 3, 1966: Noah Greenberg (1919–1966)
August 5, 1965: Mozart in the Stacks
Mozart: A Documentary Biography by Otto Erich Deutsch
June 3, 1965: Et in Arcadia Ego (poem)
November 5, 1964: Private Poet
Rhymes of a Pfc by Lincoln Kirstein
December 26, 1963: The Common Life (poem)
February 1, 1963: Adam as a Welshman
Anathemata by David Jones
From New York Review Books
 | W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse Auden's great, transformative anthology, assembled when his own work was at its most provocative and searching, is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English. |
 | The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote. |
 | My Father and Myself Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. |
Books by W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden: Poems (2000)
W. H. Auden [sound Recording (1999)
Magen Akhiles Ve-Shirim Aherim 1927-1973 (1998)
Un Poema No Escrito: Dichtung Und Wahrheit (1996)
Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse (1996)
As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks and Other Light Verse (1995)
In Solitude, for Company: W.H. Auden After 1940: Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism (1995)
Dis-Moi La Verite Sur L'amour: Dix Poemes De W.H. Auden (1995)
Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928 (1994)
W. H. Auden, Los Primeros Anos (1994)
O Massacre Dos Inocentes: Uma Antologia (1994)
The Language of Learning and the Language of Love: Uncollected Writing, New Interpretations (1994)
Tell Me the Truth About Love: Ten Poems (1994)
The Prolific and the Devourer (1993)
W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings By W.H. Auden, 1939-1973 (1993)
Collected Poems (1991)
The Map of All My Youth: Early Works, Friends, and Influences (1990)
Poems, 1927-1929: A Photographic and Typographic Facsimile of the Riginal Notebook in the Berg Collection of English and American Literature (1989)
Plays, and Other Dramatic Writings By W.H. Auden, 1928-1938 (1988)
Anrufung Ariels: Ausgewahlte Gedichte Englisch-Deutsch (1987)
The Ascent of F.6; And, on the Frontier (1986)
The Enchafed Flood, Or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea (1979)
Selected Poems (1979)
The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 (1977)
Wie Es Mir Schien (1977)
Sue (1977)
Collected Poems (1976)
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974)
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Journey to a War (1973)
Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems (1972)
Academic Graffiti (1971)
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
City Without Walls: And Other Poems (1969)
Collected Longer Poems (1968)
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1968)
Secondary Worlds: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures Delivered at Eliot College in the University of Kent at Canterbury, October 1967 (1968)
Homage to Clio (1960)
Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden (1958)